There is no end to kindness. It can be found in the still of the morning, when the birds are trilling and sipping from a freshly filled bath. In the newly planted herbs and the hints of green pushing upwards out of dark, rich soil, seeking sunshine and warmth. The unconditional returns of someone’s sowing. Kindness can be discovered in small gifts […]

This week, in the act of looking for ways to express kindness, I began to notice how many times I was on the receiving end of someone else’s generosity and thoughtfulness. By the end of the week I felt as though I was experiencing a kaleidoscope of kindness. I had somehow rotated the dial on life to reveal a […]

The way we use language, the way we evolve it, and what we take a word to mean, is critical to the people we are and the people we are becoming. Circa 1300s the word ‘kindness’, as a noun, came in to use to describe both ‘courtesies’ and ‘noble deeds’. In Latin the word is ‘humanitas’ […]

I spent the night before the start of my kindness challenge making kumquat jam and cookies – because baking helps me find the calm and, at that point, my mind was filled with questions and worries about kindness. For example, would an act have to be extraordinary – because I was worried that a small act […]

We’ve talked a lot about kindness here at Champagne Missives. In particular, about the importance of deliberate, conscious acts of kindness. In my post ‘Committing to kindness‘, I wrote about how when we act kindly we deepen our connection with people – even those we don’t know. Acts of kindness, be they small or large, have the power to change […]